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Snow, ice and frigid temperatures made driving treacherous Friday and led to a freak accident at Cowboys Stadium that sent six people to the hospital. The injuries ? one of them critical ? were to contractors hired by the NFL to prepare the stadium for Super Bowl XLV. Snow and ice fell from the stadium's roof. None of the injuries was considered life threatening. Meanwhile, as much as five inches of snow fell overnight, leading to canceled and delayed flights and roadways strewn with disabled cars.

Gina Chappin, who has run media operations for the Rose Bowl game since 2007, on Monday was named senior director of communications and brand management for the new College Football Playoff. Chappin will remain with the Rose Bowl through next season as it celebrates its 100th-game anniversary and also hosts the last national title game in the Bowl Championship Series. The BCS will be replaced in 2014-15 by a new four-team playoff that will use a selection committee to pick the participants.  "Gina is a perfect fit to join our team in implementing the College Football Playoff," Bill Hancock, current BCS executive director, said in a statement.

The Nov. 13 super-welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito will land at Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas, a source close to site negotiations told The Times on Monday. Former world welterweight champion Margarito is scheduled to appear Wednesday before the California State Athletic Commission in hopes of regaining his boxing license. He was stripped of his license after authorities confiscated plaster inserts from inside his hand wrap before his January 2009 title defense against Shane Mosley at Staples Center.

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will play host to the first championship game in the new College Football Playoff. "The stadium itself was the biggest determiner," Bowl Championship Series Executive Director Bill Hancock said after the announcement Wednesday. "It's still THE stadium with a capital 'T'. " It helped immensely that Cowboys Stadium can seat 103,000 for football. The game will be staged Jan. 12, 2015, and marks the start of a Super Bowl-like venue rotation.

Thousands of well-wishers, including dozens of Navy SEALS, descended on Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Monday to remember the life of a famed Navy SEAL sniper killed at a nearby gun range on Feb. 2. The body of Chris Kyle, author of "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History" -- an account of Kyle's four tours in Iraq, where he said he killed at least 160 enemy combatants -- lay in state on...

Don't worry about the confrontation involving Dallas Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman and secondary coach Dave Campo. Their heated conversation in the first half of Sunday's game against Washington that escalated to Newman's shoving Campo? Newman joked it was nothing more than to promote a fight that would be on the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. undercard. "It's going to happen in Vegas," Newman told ESPNDallas.com. "It's going down. We've got Don King promoting. You know?

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will play host to the first championship game in the new College Football Playoff. "The stadium itself was the biggest determiner," Bowl Championship Series Executive Director Bill Hancock said after the announcement Wednesday. "It's still THE stadium with a capital 'T'. " It helped immensely that Cowboys Stadium can seat 103,000 for football. The game will be staged Jan. 12, 2015, and marks the start of a Super Bowl-like venue rotation.

The NBA All-Star game is coming to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in 2010 and plenty of seats are available -- more than 100,000. The Dallas Mavericks and Cowboys are collaborating on hosting next season's showcase event. It will be among the first major events at the soon-to-be-completed, $1.1-billion facility in nearby Arlington. The event should set the record for the largest crowd to watch an NBA game, shattering the mark of 44,735 set at the 1989 All-Star game at the Houston Astrodome.

COTTON BOWL Louisiana State vs. Texas A&M When: Friday, 5 p.m. PST. Where: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas On the air: Channel 11. About No. 11 Louisiana State (10-2): The Tigers, led by All-American cornerback Patrick Peterson, ranked second in the Southeastern Conference in total defense. An inconsistent offense ranked in the bottom third of the SEC in many categories, and was last in passing. Of course, Coach Les Miles always has something up his sleeve ?

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High got to open its season Monday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the Knights' football trip turned out to be a productive one. Running back Kenny Boggs scored three touchdowns, and quarterback Ryan Kasdorf completed his first nine passes and finished 16 for 24 for 193 yards and one touchdown to help the Knights defeat Spring (Texas) Klein Oak, 37-7. Notre Dame players wanted to be a good representative for California high school football, and they executed on both sides of the ball, limiting their mistakes while relying on their spread offense to control the clock and the game.

Thousands of well-wishers, including dozens of Navy SEALS, descended on Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Monday to remember the life of a famed Navy SEAL sniper killed at a nearby gun range on Feb. 2. The body of Chris Kyle, author of "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History" -- an account of Kyle's four tours in Iraq, where he said he killed at least 160 enemy combatants -- lay in state on...

Tony Romo had a career day on Sunday. At least that's what some people are saying about the Dallas Cowboys quarterback's performance against the New York Giants. And those people are absolutely correct. His 437 passing yards are the most Romo has thrown for in his seven years as the Cowboys' starter. He also set a franchise record with 62 passing attempts, and if his late pass to Dez Bryant in the end zone hadn't been reversed, Romo would have set a new team mark with 474 passing yards.

Re "Council clears path for stadium," Sept. 29 Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL's New England Patriots, tried to have a new football stadium built in Boston, Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn., with public and private financing. These plans fell through. Kraft paid all construction costs and built a stadium in Foxboro, Mass., that opened in 2002. Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, cost $1.15 billion to build. Arlington's sales tax was raised by half a cent, its hotel tax was raised 2 percentage points and the car rental tax was raised by 5 percentage points.

Lest you think I am merely another pretty-boy sportswriter, I offer up this serious proposal: a new NFL stadium, at the corner of 2nd and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles. Sure, there's a major newspaper there now ? this one ? but don't mind that. This is the perfect location, right across the street from the LAPD and catty-corner from City Hall. It represents a holy trinity: media, cops, crooks. When some city inspector is busted for taking a bribe, we'll get that story to you yesterday.

Ticket-holding football fans who ended up with no seats or what they considered bad views of the Super Bowl have filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys and team owner Jerry Jones. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Dallas alleges breach of contract, fraud and deceptive sales practices on behalf of people who ended up watching the game on TV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, or had seats the lawsuit labeled "illegitimate. " The NFL had announced hours before the Green Bay Packers played the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday that about 1,250 temporary seats were deemed unsafe, and the league scrambled to find new seats for about 850 people.

A day after Super Bowl XLV, the NFL was still dealing with fallout from the Cowboys Stadium seating fiasco ? and the headache could linger for months. Roughly 1,250 spectators in six sections of the stadium were relocated or had to watch the game on monitors because their temporary seats ? installed for the game ? weren't ready. The sections in the upper deck above one end zone were not completed because the railings had not been installed and/or the stairs and risers were not sufficiently tightened.

Basketball history was made Sunday night. Never before had so many paid so much to watch from so far away. Putting a memorable stamp on what would have been another high-scoring, forgettable game in an increasingly forgettable series, the East beat the West, 141-139, in the greatest All-Star game in NBA history . . . at least, attendance-wise. With 108,713 in Cowboys Stadium, at premium prices up to $500 for however many of the field-level seats that weren't given to corporate sponsors, it was the biggest crowd for any game, or exhibition, in basketball history.

The state of Texas on Thursday issued a boxing license to Antonio Margarito 17 months after California revoked the Mexican boxer's license for nearly taking gloves loaded with plaster inserts into a January 2009 fight at Staples Center. The decision by Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Executive Director William Kuntz paves the way for Margarito, the former world welterweight champion, to fight Manny Pacquiao for a world super-welterweight belt Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

If everything works out for them in Super Bowl XLV, the Green Bay Packers will hit the wall. Specifically, they want to adorn the wall of their meeting room at Lambeau Field, where grainy photos of every Packers championship team now hang; pictures that include players such as Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Herb Adderley and Brett Favre. A space has already been cleared for this season's team. "I thought it would be a cool thing for us to see every day in the meeting room," said quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who lobbied for the blank space.

Snow, ice and frigid temperatures made driving treacherous Friday and led to a freak accident at Cowboys Stadium that sent six people to the hospital. The injuries ? one of them critical ? were to contractors hired by the NFL to prepare the stadium for Super Bowl XLV. Snow and ice fell from the stadium's roof. None of the injuries was considered life threatening. Meanwhile, as much as five inches of snow fell overnight, leading to canceled and delayed flights and roadways strewn with disabled cars.